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Carl Barzilauskas, who played defensive tackle for the Jets and Packers from 1974-79, died Dec. 20 at age 72.

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Nobody was better than 10-3 at this point in 1979 (Hou., Pitt., S.D.), 1993 (NYG), 2002 (Phil., G.B., T.B.), or 2014 (N.E., Den., G.B., Ariz.).

That '83 game resulted in one of John McKay's better tirades. “Capece is kaput. We will not kick a field goal next week if we are on the 2-yard line, the 1-yard line, none.”

Jim Carter, linebacker for the Packers from 1970-78, died Nov. 23 at age 75.

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Per Elias (via the Packers' weekly Dope Sheet), the two Thursday games against Detroit this season mark just the second time that two teams have squared off multiple times on a Thursday in the same season (1926 Chicago Bears/Chicago Cardinals).

The end goal, probably, is an 18-game schedule with two bye weeks and a game on every night of the week. I'm sure a scheduling wizard could see to it that no team has fewer than six days' rest between games. It would destroy the rhythm of a football season that we've known for a century, but big dea...

Richard Sherman went off at length a few years ago about how impossible it is for players to be physically ready to play Thursday after a Sunday game. Even for the most finely conditioned athletes in the world, the aches and bruises from the previous game are still healing. Throw in how dire the Thu...

That 2010 GB-NE Sunday nighter is the game I always think of whenever anyone claims that there's no such thing as moral victories. The trouble is that most moral victories can’t be recognized as such until well after the fact. But if you ask the players on almost any Super Bowl champion team, they p...

Yep. It's been established previously, but never made more clear: It was a fantastically lucky play, but not the least bit illegal.

(Keep in mind the Giants were also 10-6 and they didn’t play each other, so why didn’t SF get the tiebreaker)? I presume it's because they had the better conference record (8-4 vs. 7-5). San Francisco held the advantage in both points for/against and record against common opponents, but I believe t...